Breakouts! Plus How to Adjust League Settings for COVID (08/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Breakouts win you leagues! Get ready to hear about some players who could have monster seasons. We start with a few of our favorites (3:05): Ronald Jones, D.J. Moore and Miles Sanders. Then we try to help you adjust your league settings to account for COVID (12:10). Should you add more bench spots? Team QB? Adjust your payouts? ... News and notes (19:40) including a Nick Chubb update and a potentially discouraging Ben Roethlisberger report (25:00). Then back to breakouts as Heath gives us another young WR ready to take a big leap (26:55) ... Even more breakouts! Debating Kyler Murray vs. Dak Prescott (31:00) and Tyler Higbee vs. Hayden Hurst (36:15), and discussing when to draft Mark Andrews (40:40) and which Round 5 breakout WRs we like best (44:00). Plus thoughts on Darius Slayton (49:10) and listener breakout suggestions (51:00). Finally, get an awesome food review of the "Seattle Hot Dog" from Dave Richard (54:30)! ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is Fantasy Football today from CBS Sports. |
| 0:03.6 | I am his way to the end zone. |
| 0:05.8 | Now you wanna jump with the spectacular play. |
| 0:08.0 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
| 0:10.5 | One play, historic races, touchdowns, I always die again. |
| 0:15.4 | Now here's some combination of Adam Day, Jamie Heath and Ben. |
| 0:21.1 | It is Tuesday, August 18th. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm at Amazur and I love breakouts. |
| 0:26.6 | And I've got the wall art to prove it. |
| 0:28.4 | If you're watching on youtube.com slash fantasy football today, |
| 0:32.0 | welcome to our breakouts show. |
| 0:33.8 | In case you missed it yesterday, sleepers win you weeks, |
| 0:37.0 | breakouts win you leagues, TM, Dave Richards, Ben Gretchen |
| 0:41.0 | and Heath Coveings are here, but I have a disclaimer |
| 0:43.3 | before you're too hard on Ben. |
| 0:45.8 | Just know that Heath stole all of the breakouts |
| 0:48.8 | that Ben wanted to talk about today. |
| 0:50.3 | So, you know, Heath, you've put Ben in a bad spot. |
| 0:54.8 | That's not true. |
| 0:56.2 | I didn't take Jonathan Taylor. |
| 0:58.4 | I didn't say AJ Brown. |
| 1:00.8 | Like there, I didn't say Kyler Murray. |
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